Is there such a thing as RAID S tape storage? Thus helping to ensure data integrity in the face of a tape loss?
Of course managing tape dsn churn would be a challenge.. but big data says keep it all. :-) Rob Schramm On May 19, 2014 4:32 PM, "Ed Finnell" <[email protected]> wrote: > Topic drift alert! We had a PhD candidate come in to Help Desk in > tears(circa 1986). She was typing her dissertation on her PC and storing > each > chapter on a floppy then pinning to fridge with kitchen magnet. > They were sent off for recovery but only got a portion back. > > Some of the new rare earth magnets are so strong you can't break them > apart. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neodymium_magnet > > > In a message dated 5/19/2014 3:55:39 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > IBM, Fujifilm squeeze more terabytes out of tape storage; Summary: IBM's > advance means a standard tape cartridge could store 154 terabytes of > uncompressed data. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
